TY - JOUR
T1 - Early-onset lichenoid graft-vs.-host disease
T2 - A unique variant of acute graft-vs.-host disease occurring in peripheral blood stem cell transplant recipients
AU - Magro, Cynthia M.
AU - Kerns, Mary Jo
AU - Votava, Henry
AU - Vasil, Katherine E.
AU - Dyrsen, Molly E.
AU - Morrison, Carl D.
PY - 2010/5
Y1 - 2010/5
N2 - Background: A complication of stem cell transplantation is chronic graft-vs.-host disease (GvHD), developing months to years after transplant; the two commonest manifestations are lichenoid GvHD and scleroderma. The purpose of this study was to characterize early-onset lichenoid GvHD. Methods: A retrospective study identified patients diagnosed with early-onset lichenoid GvHD. This diagnosis was correlated with type of transplant and concurrent or prior episodes of acute GvHD. Results: Patients in whom a sex mismatch was present between donor and recipient were included, representing a study population of 17. All received an allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplant (PBSCT). All patients had biopsy proven lichenoid GvHD within 60 days or less following transplantation. All had concurrent gastrointestinal symptoms which was biopsy proven GvHD in thirteen of the cases. FISH XY studies revealed that the infiltrating lymphocytes were of donor origin in 12 of the cases, mixed in three and of host origin in two cases. Conclusions: Early-onset lichenoid GvHD is exclusive to the PBSCT setting and appears to be mediated by donor lymphocytes, reflecting the higher numbers of donor T cells encountered in PBSCT. We consider this reaction pattern a distinctive subtype of acute GvHD. Magro CM, Kerns MJ, Votava H, Vasil KE, Dyrsen ME, Morrison CD. Early-onset lichenoid graft-vs.-host disease: a unique variant of acute graft-vs.-host disease occurring in peripheral blood stem cell transplant recipients.
AB - Background: A complication of stem cell transplantation is chronic graft-vs.-host disease (GvHD), developing months to years after transplant; the two commonest manifestations are lichenoid GvHD and scleroderma. The purpose of this study was to characterize early-onset lichenoid GvHD. Methods: A retrospective study identified patients diagnosed with early-onset lichenoid GvHD. This diagnosis was correlated with type of transplant and concurrent or prior episodes of acute GvHD. Results: Patients in whom a sex mismatch was present between donor and recipient were included, representing a study population of 17. All received an allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplant (PBSCT). All patients had biopsy proven lichenoid GvHD within 60 days or less following transplantation. All had concurrent gastrointestinal symptoms which was biopsy proven GvHD in thirteen of the cases. FISH XY studies revealed that the infiltrating lymphocytes were of donor origin in 12 of the cases, mixed in three and of host origin in two cases. Conclusions: Early-onset lichenoid GvHD is exclusive to the PBSCT setting and appears to be mediated by donor lymphocytes, reflecting the higher numbers of donor T cells encountered in PBSCT. We consider this reaction pattern a distinctive subtype of acute GvHD. Magro CM, Kerns MJ, Votava H, Vasil KE, Dyrsen ME, Morrison CD. Early-onset lichenoid graft-vs.-host disease: a unique variant of acute graft-vs.-host disease occurring in peripheral blood stem cell transplant recipients.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1600-0560.2009.01427.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1600-0560.2009.01427.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 19843195
AN - SCOPUS:77949865894
SN - 0303-6987
VL - 37
SP - 549
EP - 558
JO - Journal of Cutaneous Pathology
JF - Journal of Cutaneous Pathology
IS - 5
ER -